What's Ahead For TransportersAnd Marketers of C0_2

摘要

Kinder Morgan's R.Tim Bradley, president of CO_2, discusses the impact the company's new 91-mile, 10-inch CO2 distribution pipeline and complementary facilities will have on future enhanced oil recovery operations in the region and the company's future plans. Kinder Morgan is one of the nation s largest pipeline transportation and energy storage companies with more than 37,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. The company transports, stores and handles energy products like natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, ethanol, coal and carbon dioxide (CO_2. These products are essential for generating electricity, heating homes, powering cars and much more. Kinder Morgan is also the leading transporter and marketer of CO_2 in North America, delivering approximately 1.3 Bcf/d through about 1,300 miles of pipelines. The company ranks as the second-largest oil producer in Texas, producing over 55,000 bpd at the SACROC Unit and the Yates Field in the Permian Basin. In addition to CO_2 pipelines and oil producing fields, this business segment owns significant interests in and operates CO_2 source fields, natural gas and gasoline processing plants, and a crude oil pipeline. According to the company, CO_2 flooding is a proven technology that is used to boost production in mature oilfields. Kinder Morgan transports CO_2 via pipeline from southwestern Colorado to West Texas where it is injected into oil-producing fields. The Permian Basin produces approximately 20% of the total oil production in the United States (excluding Alaska). Shortly after completing construction of the company's CO_2 Eastern Shelf Pipeline and the Katz oil field project in the eastern Permian Basin of Texas, P&GJ visited with R. Tim Bradley, president of CO_2, of Kinder Morgan, to discuss the impact the new 91-mile, 10-inch CO_2 distribution pipeline and complementary facilities will have on future enhanced oil recovery operations in the region and the company's future plans.